In-cosmetics Global 2026: Innosya releases fermentation-powered bioactives for “pro-aging”
28 Apr 2026 | Innosya Cosmetic Ingredients
At In-cosmetics Global 2026, Sandra Catarino, head of marketing at Innosya Cosmetic Ingredients shared insights into the company’s latest innovation: a trio of fermentation-derived “pro-aging” actives. These biotech-driven ingredients — Skinosya Chondro, Skinosya Salidroside, Skinosya SAG — are designed to support the skin’s natural aging process, addressing concerns like skin stress, elasticity, and menopausal aging. Developed with Lesaffre’s fermentation expertise, the clinically tested, vegan ingredients reflect a commitment to personalization, sustainability, and the growing demand for “pro-aging” solutions.
This is Ella Jayal for Personal care insights at Incosmetics Global 2026, joined by Sandra Catterino, head of marketing at Inosia.
Sandra to meet you too.
So you are showcasing three fermentation powered pro-aging ingredients.
Can you expand on what these ingredients are and what skin benefits they have?
Indeed, we are launching 3 actives for skincare, all of them covering different aspects under the The brand name Skinnosia, which stands for skin active ingredients.
So first we have longevity pro-aging active, which is called Skinnosia chondro.
It's a chondroitin sulfate.
Usually chondroitin sulfate is used as an ingredient in the cosmetics market, but from animal origin.
We are launching a product which is based on fermentation, so it's vegan.
It's made in France.
It's compatible with halal and er.
And it's bringing firmness, elasticity, and reducing sagging, on the, on helping with the face contour.
The second active is stenosia salidozide.
Usually you can see Rodeola root extracts in some cosmetic products.
It's also used in supplements as an anti-stress molecule.
This active usually comes from a plant, Rodeola, which has been put on the list of sea tests as a protected plant because of its overexploitation, especially in supplements, and today we're launching it on a fermentation basis which protects the biodiversity and again it's.
It's a vegan active which we've developed and has proven performance that we've demonstrated in vitro and clinical tests, and it's an adaptogen reducing the production of cortisol in skin cells, so fighting all the damages caused by stress, psychological and environmental stresses in the skin.
And the third one is skinosia or SAG.
It's an acetyl glutathione.
Again, glut.
It is known as an ingredient for cosmetics.
Usually it's positioned in lightening and complexion.
What we've showed with this ingredient is that it works as an antioxidant to fight feroptosis, which is a mechanism of accelerated cell death in the skin over menopause, because during this period, iron accumulates in the skin, and if you don't have enough antioxidants, then it's going to provoke damages to the skin and accelerate.
So we have this active clinically proven to resist those mechanisms and you're talking about your ingredients as pro-aging ingredients.
Can you explain to me how this is different from anti-aging and why you went with this terminology?
There are a few things around this concept of longevity and pro-aging.
Those are words that are really buzzing in the market at the moment.
They reflect the fact that people don't want to correct that much the signs of aging once they are here.
Want is to age , not to look younger, but also to prevent those signs.
You can also see prejuvenating claims, so people are looking for ingredients and finished products that help them age , keep their beauty longer, and not resist change, but live with their wrinkles, try to reduce them if possible, but not go back 20 years before.
I guess that's also part of having a specific ingredient.
Menopausal skin and destigmatizing.
That also aligns with personalizing trends.
My next question is about your fermentation-based approach.
How does that address sustainability and resource scarcity, resource scarcity trends compared with traditional plant extracts or petrochemical derived ingredients?
Actually, there's a recent study that shows that it's expected from biotechnologies across all markets, not just cosmetics, but all markets except pharma.
Biotechnologies.
Are expected to reduce dramatically the CO2 emissions, the cultivable lands, or to support them, and also to reduce the water consumption compared to petrochemicals or other origins of molecules.
In our case, as I said before, we are putting in the market two actives which one is an alternative to animal origin, chondrogen sulfate, and the other one is an alternative to a plant extract.
The issue with that plant is also that Rodeola, namely it has a very long cycle.
It has to be grabbed from the roots because that's where the active is.
It's growing specifically in some regions.
It takes 4 to 5 years to grow that plant.
So with biotechnology you can really replace the extraction from the plants, accessing innovation, faster processes, and more efficient and better for the planet.
And with consumer demands rising for clean, natural, science-backed beauty, how are you helping formulators translate Inoso's ingredients into compelling claims that resonate with the global markets as as the science claims?
It's a whole process actually.
It starts with understanding consumer trends, their needs.
And then trying to be as transparent as we can on how we make the ingredients.
That's the first step around how we make them through fermentation, what it means.
And then all our actives have been tested and proven in performance in vitro and in clinical trials.
And last, we do have a formulation lab to showcase how our ingredients can be used and formulated in finished products to help our customers.
Take the best of our ingredients and put them in formulations that also are appealing to consumers.
OK, my final question is, while I Austria is very young itself with its early 2026 launch, you're building on Les's 170 year long legacy with experience in fermentation.
Looking ahead, which industry challenges are you prioritizing in your pipeline and how can partners get involved in co-development at this stage?
Launched.
Here at the show we've been preparing this launch already for a couple of years and as you said, we are part of a larger group that has more than 170 years' experience in microorganisms and fermentation, so it's not all new to us and actually we are of course following the trends to feed the pipeline, the innovation pipeline.
We have a number of projects.
That will help us launch something new every year and we are absolutely open to any collaborations.
Our strength is really the understanding of fermentation processes and microorganisms.
We've got a big library of microorganisms and we're happy to innovate with whoever wants to work with us.
Thank you very much for joining us at Personal Care and Sites.
Thank you so much.
